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526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed
SimianOverlord writes "The Guardian (and several other news outlets) report on the attempt by Professor Paulo Galluci and his team to build a working model of Leonard Da Vinci's clockwork powered car, designed in 1478. Previous attempts have been made to create the vehicle, but they failed to work properly. This is thought to be due to a misunderstanding of the original design, which is corrected in the new model. Apart from the 1/3 scale replica, the team have also made a full size model but have not dared to test it. Professor Galluzzi explained "It is a very powerful machine. It could run into something and do serious damage.""
By your logic the windows source code should be documented to all hell, while the linux source code has roughly three comments in it.
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It's not hard to make pretty drawing of things that can never be built. Can anyone name me just one invention that Lenny actually carried to fruition that worked? For that matter, can anyone name one theory , one discovery, one theorem, one miniscule contribution to science or philosophy that he made - other than speculating that seashells on mountainsides proved the biblical flood? And no I don't like the Mona Lisa either...